Cognitive search : evolution, algorithms, and the brain / edited by Peter M. Todd, Thomas T. Hills, and Trevor W. Robbins.
2012
BF311 .C5527 2012eb
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Title
Cognitive search : evolution, algorithms, and the brain / edited by Peter M. Todd, Thomas T. Hills, and Trevor W. Robbins.
ISBN
9780262306003 (electronic bk.)
026230600X (electronic bk.)
9780262018098
0262018098
026230600X (electronic bk.)
9780262018098
0262018098
Publication Details
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2012.
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
BF311 .C5527 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
153
Summary
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our social networks, and for solutions to novel problems. In all these spaces, what we find is governed by how we search and by the structure of the environment. This book explores how we search for resources in our minds and in the world.
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Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our social networks, and for solutions to novel problems. In all these spaces, what we find is governed by how we search and by the structure of the environment. This book explores how we search for resources in our minds and in the world.
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